Warm rains arrive, and there is an explosion of activity in the amphibian world; frogs emerge from shelter and appear as if by magic in flooded pools, ponds, and streams. Individuals of one or more species join together in what appearsto be agreat celebration of sound their yearly breeding effort, when makes call excitedly to attract females in the age old quest to reproduce. Frogs produce an impresive variety of sounds, all manner of croaks, perps, trills, snores, barks, and chuckles. Choruses often pulsate with complex rhytems; neighboring makes call back and forth in right alternation and groups erupt after long periods of silence. While scientist interpret these calls in terms of their function make attraction. aggresion distress, and the like the poet listens with a different car, judging the the emotional impacts of the sounds and the fellings evoked by the choruses.
The enchanting calls of frogs emanating from werlands in the dark of the night have a primal, timeless quality and evoke in many a sentiment expressed by Sigurd F. Olson in his book The Singing Wilderness: "This is primeval chorus, the sort of wilderness music which reigned over the earth millions of year4s ago... one of the most ancient sounds of the earth, it is a continuation of music from the past, and no matter where I listen to a bog at night, strange feelings stir within me."
